Jack Harris (AYAOTD)
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Jack Harris is the sibling of Kenny Harris. He is originally from the East Side.
During the events of Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Season 2 Episode 13 The Tale of Old Man Corcoran played by Adam Bonneau
Jack and Kenny are playing with squirt guns when Kenny sprays Jack in the face with a large amount of water. They run to their front yard and Marshall McClain rides up on his bicycle along with his friends. Jack asks him what he wants and Marshall asks them where they are from. Jack says they are from the East Side, the toughest neighborhood in the city. Marshall asks them if they like the neighborhood and Jack calls it a loser neighborhood, but Kenny says he likes it a lot better there. Marshall invites them to play a game of Hide and Seek with him and his friends that night. Jack declines and says it is a stupid kid's game, and Marshall insinuates they would probably be too afraid to play it where they play. He says they play it at the end of Anchor Street behind the big gates. Jack says he and Kenny aren't chicken, and Marshall tells them to meet at the location at sunset.
In the evening Jack and Kenny arrive at the location and find out it is a cemetery. Kenny is hesitant to enter, but Jack reminds him that he was the one that wanted to make friends and they climb the fence. They walk through the cemetery, and Marshall jumps up from behind them and tells them the others are out in the graveyard. Marshall calls for the other kids, and they step out from behind headstones. Marshall introduces them to Ron Jacobson, Scott Walden, Laura Ayers, Mary Alice Reardon, and Cissy Vernon. Cissy says they already have enough players, but Marshall says the more the better. Cissy says she hopes they aren't scared, but Jack says there is nothing to be afraid of because everyone in there is dead. Cissy tells them that everyone is kind of dead and then mentions the legend of Old Man Corcoran and then proceeds to tell the legend. Marshall says the rules for Hide and Seek and says the tree is home base. Ron is chosen as the seeker and the others hide. Jack and Kenny go to hide together and find an open grave and then hear a noise. They follow the noise to a shack and hear the door open and close. Someone starts chopping wood and the door opens and closes again. They see a harmonica on the stump and then run away and after they leave a hand picks up the harmonica. One of the kids pops up from behind a grave and runs away and as Jack and Kenny are about to chase after them, they almost run into Old Man Corcoran who is holding an axe. They scream and run away and climb over the cemetery fence, but as he is climbing the fence, Kenny rips his pants climbing over the fence.
The next day, Kenny and Jack are forced to sweep the garage by their mom for Kenny ripping his pants. Marshall, Cissy and the other kids ride up to Kenny and Jack's house, and Marshall invites them to play Hide and Seek again. When Jack and Kenny say they aren't going to come, Cissy calls them chicken and Jack says they will be there. That evening Jack and Kenny go back to the cemetery and meet up with the other kids. Marhsall insists there is no such thing as Old Man Corcoran when the legend is brought up again by one of the kids. Jack and Kenny are chosen as the seekers and start searching for the others. They find one of them, but they disappear when a mist passes by. Kenny and Jack hear the harmonica again and Jack suggests they steal Old Man Corcoran's harmonica to prove he exists. They go to his shack and watch as he walks away carrying wood. They try to steal the harmonica, which is sitting on a stump, but Old Man Corcoran comes back and takes it. Jack still wants to steal the harmonica, but Kenny leaves to get the other kids. Jack breaks into Old Man Corcoran's shack and while looking around the door closes. Kenny shows up with Old Man Corcoran's harmonica, and they run out of the shack when Old Man Corcoran tells them to give back his harmonica. As they run through the cemetery they fall into an open grave where Cissy is hiding. They tell Cissy they stole Old Man Corcoran's harmonica, but she tells them to leave, and she doesn't want them there. She tells them to go find their own grave and Kenny says that he didn't see her name on it. They find Marshall in another open grave and tell him about the harmonica, but he says the Old Man Corcoran story is not real. Marshall invites them into the grave he is hiding in and then hides again. Old Man Corcoran sneaks up behind Jack and Kenny and takes back his harmonica. He asks them what they are doing in the cemetery and they tell him they were playing Hide and Seek with friends and then Kenny starts naming off the other kid's names. Old Man Corcoran tells them that all the kids they named are dead and he buried them himself. Jack and Kenny turn and look at the headstone of the grave Marshall was in and it has Marshall's name on it.